The Allnighter is the second solo studio album by Glenn Frey, the guitarist and co-lead vocalist for the Eagles.

When Frey was asked about his song writing partnership with Jack Tempchin, he said at the time that "It's funny, there are only those certain people where things click — at least for me.

[3] In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau gave The Alnighter a "C" and panned it as a "smarmy piece of sexist pseudosoul".

[3] In a retrospective review for The Rolling Stone Album Guide (1992), Mark Coleman gave the album two out of five stars and wrote that it "glistens with synthesized oomph, but the sugar coating doesn't sit well on Frey's mannered white R&B loverman act.

"[4] On the other hand, AllMusic's William Ruhlmann retrospectively gave it four-and-a-half stars and said that it departs from the "old Eagles sound" of Frey's last album for a "bluesy, rocking feel.